Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported in to my boss, the desk, five or day." six Out days of a this week, at unflinching least six writing hours a stint came some of the U.S.'s most success ful fiction. Wouk's total output to date...
Last week the gold watch (brought to the U.S. from Russia 27 years ago by Novelist Wouk's grandfather) was shut and resting in the desk drawer. Novelist Wouk was taking his first vacation in nearly a decade from the job of writing - "the loneliest job in the world." Wouk, a tall, darkly handsome man of 40, was relaxing at his ocean-front home on New York's Fire Island, trying to fix a 30-year-old reading lamp, lolling on the sand, teaching his five-year-old son how to float...
...Craftsman. His day does not begin at his desk, but in prayer, for which he dons the traditional black-and-white prayer shawl and straps phylacteries (small leather cases containing texts from...
...forehead. He prays twice more each day, just before and just after sundown. He also reads from the Pentateuch for an hour daily. He tries to start writing by 9 o'clock, takes a lunch break at i, sometimes naps for a while, but gets back to his desk in time to turn out about 1,500 words a day. He rarely rewrites...
Mixed Grill. Scorning the committee approach, Steiger designed everything down to the laundry truck for a recently completed, $20 million Zurich hospital. Every purchase order for the hospital, no matter how small, passed across his desk. When a surgeon objected to his unorthodox arrangement of the operating rooms, he said perhaps the doctor would be happier elsewhere. The doctor stayed, and eventually approved...